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Folio 112: Harrington to Finch. From your last letters obvious you had no suspicion...

Catalogue reference: SP 91/26/112

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This record is about the Folio 112: Harrington to Finch. From your last letters obvious you had no suspicion... dating from 1740 Dec 5 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 91/26/112
Date
1740 Dec 5
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Folio 112: Harrington to Finch. From your last letters obvious you had no suspicion what followed the next night at St Petersburg which we heard from the Hague. Ginkel brought it by courier from Swart. Prince Scerbatov has new letters of notification from Czar andPrincess Anne to HM Expect no further orders upon such an important revolution in that government before we know the dispositions of the people in power. Find out their inclinations towards our treaty, which HM will be willing to go on with. Dated Whitehall, 5 Dec 1740.

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